Director of Digital Education

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with appropriate experience for the post of Director of Digital Education. This role will be a senior institutional position which will shape, develop and enhance digital education at King’s.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to develop and shape a new operating model for digital education at King’s. The role holder will have an integral role in supporting the University to transition to the model they help define. This is an opportunity to engage and secure support from colleagues across a wide range of stakeholders at King’s.

The role holder will bring leadership and strategic direction to ensure the effective development of a coherent and forward-thinking approach to digital education. They will work closely with the Vice-President (Education & Student Success) and the Chief Information Officer to ensure outputs align with King’s strategic priorities.  They will also work with a wide range of King’s academic and professional services teams to build full engagement and participation in delivering transformational change under the new digital education operating model.

The role holder will draw on their own professional experience to provide digital education advice and guidance to senior staff and King’s committees. They will use their experience to work effectively with relevant teams to ensure King’s approach to digital accessibility removes, or alleviates through reasonable adjustments, any barriers that staff or students living with a disability may encounter.

The role holder will represent digital education at King’s to external stakeholders and in external fora. They will support the training, mentoring, development and career progression of colleagues in digital education.

This post will be offered on an indefinite full-time contract.

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 14 May.

• Bring leadership and strategic direction to ensure the effective development of a coherent and forward-thinking approach to Digital Education. 
• Work closely with the Vice-President (Education and Student Success) and the Chief Information Officer to ensure the work aligns with King’s strategic priorities.  
• Work with a wide range of academic and professional services teams at King’s to build full engagement and participation in delivering transformational change in the way in which the Digital Education operating model is agreed and implemented. 
• Represent Digital Education at King's with external stakeholders and in external fora.  
• Draw on own professional experience to provide advice and guidance to senior staff (including Vice-Deans Education) and to the University’s committees on issues relating to Digital Education. 
• Draw on own professional experience to work with the relevant teams to ensure that King’s has an approach to digital accessibility that removes, or alleviates through reasonable adjustments, any barriers to digital accessibility that might be encountered by anyone, student or staff, with a disability.  
• Support the training, mentoring, development and career progression of colleagues in the function. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

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